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Victory

by: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

Publication date: 1921
Topics: Europeans, Women musicians, Abused women, Revenge, Europeans -- Indonesia -- Fiction, Women musicians -- Fiction, Abused women -- Fiction, Revenge -- Fiction, Indonesia -- Fiction
Publisher: New York, Modern library
Collection: internetarchivebooks; americana
Contributor: Internet Archive
Language: English
Item Size: 554.4M

Set in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Victory tells the story of a disillusioned Swede, Axel Heyst, who rescues Lena, a young English musician, from the clutches of a brutish German hotel owner. Seeking refuge at Heyst's remote island retreat on Samburan, the couple is soon besieged by three villains dispatched by the enraged hotelier. The arrival on the island paradise of this trio of fiends sets off a terrifying series of events that ultimately ends in catastrophe

385 p